Old World News

Test Branch: 1.0.71689 Test 2024-03-27

[h2]Design[/h2]

• Bonus tech cards position and cost in the tech tree reorganized
  
• Free units now unlocked on a different tech than the one that would allow that unit to be built. Free Longbowmen, Crossbowmen and Dromon cards now grant 2 units.
  
• Improved scaling of diplomatic event chance with number of AIs
  
• Marriage events now only occur for the leader and their children
  
• Added Greedy to Seven Sins trait group and removed Extravagant
  
• Removed turn delay on more event bonuses when No Undo is enabled
  

[h2]New Events[/h2]

• A More Disciplined Approach
  
• Battle Diary
  
• Emergency War Taxes
  
• Enough Missiles to Block the Sun
  
• Learning From Our Mistakes
  
• Masquerade
  
• Taking the Reins
  
• The Fluffy Bunny
  
• Whispers from the Gods
  

[h2]Programming[/h2]

• Worker AI improvements
  
• Improved AI consideration for connecting its cities to foreign cities
  
• AI no longer spends orders to place military units on city sites when it has not yet met any opponents
  
• Removed explicit construction states asset definitions for wonders that shouldn't have one
  

[h2]UI[/h2]

• Research choice event no longer appears. Research popup shown on trying to end turn without having selected anything to research.
  
• Map Editor now handles setting DynastySites for defining where a dynasty will start from
  
• Improved Hall of Fame column header formatting
  
• Improved tooltip for heir naming options
  
• Renamed Enlist Next to Enlist Next Kill
  
• Units that level up no longer wake up. This fixes auto-heal getting canceled on level up.
  

[h2]Bugs Fixed[/h2]

• Fixed clergy reminder text reference
  
• Fixed network multiplayer with non-internal mods
  
• Fixed an issue with loading modded games for network play
  
• Fixed issue with premade maps where all dynasty sites were given to an AI nation rather than random city sites based on development
  
• Fixed some button clicks not triggering button audio
  
• Fixed errors on leader selection screen after coming from the scenario selection screen
  
• Fixed single player start menu sometimes not showing character portraits
  
• Fixed an issue with the way player starting tiles are picked to include any dynasty starting tiles
  
• Fixed automated icon showing on city list
  
• Fixed free extra action effectUnit load/save inconsistency
  
• Fixed mod error notification when no mods loaded
  
• Fixed null exception on shutdown in hotkey manager
  
• Fixed yield modifier bug
  
• Fixed invalid index exception
  
• Fixed text preventing tooltips from locking in some cases
  
• Fixed tooltips incorrectly stating that the Pious trait increases the chance of a pagan religion spreading
  
• Fixed techs being able to give invalid bonuses i.e. courtiers in No Characters mode
  
• Fixed Capture Buhen goal in Pharaohs of the Nile scenario 1 not triggering when moving a unit into the city when it has no HP
  
• City tooltip fixes
  
• Added Victory point level backwards compatibility (so that existing games don't have their VPs changed)
  
• Default AI Dynasties option is hidden when No Characters is enabled
  
• Text and event fixes
  

Test Branch: 1.0.71580 Test 2024-03-20

[h2]Design[/h2]

• Added new victory point setting: Very High. This increases the VP required for winning by 50%. The previous High setting now increases the VP required by 25%.
  
• Sages no longer have +25% science in their seat
  
• Patrons now get a +25% city culture bonus per Precious Resource instead of the flat +4. Patrons seat now gets 2 happiness levels per culture event instead of 1.
  
• Events giving a free siege unit will now give an Onager instead of a Ballista if the player has not yet researched Hydraulics
  
• Can no longer invalidate an ambition offer just by getting a bit closer during the turn in which it was offered
  
• Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 tweaks - boost science and units on Easy difficulty and limit Persian tech. Persia can no longer build ships.
  
• Ship build water area now takes priority over city territory (ships will spawn in selected ocean even if there is no space within player borders)
  
• Event trait delay no longer happens when there is no undo
  
• Swapped names of Persian Cleric and Rider families (for historical accuracy)
  
• Changed improvement adjacency requirements to be fulfilled in team territory, to be consistent with adjacency bonuses
  

[h2]Programming[/h2]

• Portrait Editor now automatically attempts to regenerate portraits without feature points
  
• Network connection improvements
  
• AI saves yields for Wonders less aggressively
  
• Dynasty start sites are now definable directly in map files
  

[h2]UI[/h2]

• Adjusted mapping between portrait ages and rendered portraits. This lowers the apparent age of characters portraits when using Portrait Age Interpolation.
  
• Character name is now always show in character help tooltip to give a link for selection
  
• Player option to follow moves of AI at war no longer includes civilian units
  
• Added target/prereq icons to techs tooltip while hovering over tech tree button
  
• Killed unit log entry now includes the killed unit's promotions
  
• Added reminders for clergy missions
  

[h2]Bugs Fixed[/h2]

• Fixed some team contact issues
  
• Fixed a movement bug where you could spend orders but not complete the entire move
  
• Fixed mixed language text appearing in cloud games
  
• Fixed difficulty dropdown in SP advanced setup
  
• Fixed tribes entering their own camp getting credit for capturing a settlement
  
• Fixed highlighted tiles for selected Disciples
  
• Fixed human development not applying due to defaults
  
• Fixed empty parenthesis on trait loss when no ratings change involved
  
• Fixed some button links still activating on click
  
• Fixed some settings getting reverted to default
  
• Development fix in event editor
  
• Portrait Editor fixes
  
• Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5 fixes
  
• Fixed Rome over expanding in Learn to Play 5
  
• Fixed raiders sometimes not raiding
  
• Fixed missing option defaults in Safe Mode
  
• Fixed hotkey rebinding in Safe Mode
  
• Fixed tooltip locking on inheritance screen
  
• Fixed some cases where border preview showed the wrong color
  
• Fixed tooltip positioning issues
  
• Fixed missing UI elements in Carthage and Pharaohs scenarios
  
• Fixed Exodus events not triggering in Pharaohs scenario 5 when loading from a save
  
• Fixed road pathfinder error when used on tiles where roads cannot be built
  
• Fixed two character different character portraits actually referring to the same art
  
• Text and event fixes
  

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Test Branch: 1.0.71462 Test 2024-03-13

[h2]Design[/h2]

• Added per player Development setting to multiplayer setup. All players, Human and AI, can have their own development setting, which gives additional starting cities and techs.
  
• Rider family seat now gives 1 Order / turn
  
• Legitimacy cost for adoption reduced from 4 to 2
  
• Miserable trait has a chance per turn of being removed
  
• Competitive mode back to giving a flat rate of science, civics, training, and money
  
• Improved city site resource placement so that it is less likely that one of them is unreachable
  
• Old World premade map tweaks. Extended map one tile north, fixed some resources and ruins that were out of borders. Added Lavender to several locations on map.
  
• You can now shift-click a law to abolish it without replacing it. This will increase the cost of establishing a law in that pair by 100.
  
• When moving allied units, the moving player now gets exploration and ruins yields instead of the unit owner. Moving allied units can no longer trigger events.
  
• Khufu's wonder cost reduction lowered from 50% to 25% (Wonders and Dynasties)
  
• Marius' enrolment post now gives -25% for warriors only instead of all infantry, training cost for project removed. Sulla now more likely to cause Marius problems. (Wonders and Dynasties)
  
• Hannibal now gets -20 family opinions and an increased legitimacy penalty in some Hannibal specific events (Wonders and Dynasties)
  
• Added preferred families for more dynasty leaders (Wonders and Dynasties)
  
• Sulla's Dictator trait now included in Terrifying trait group (Wonders and Dynasties)
  
• Agrippina unlocking a spymaster is now tied to a trait, the current one will stay if she dies but a new one cannot be appointed (Wonders and Dynasties)
  
• Parsa renamed to Persepolis in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5
  

[h2]Programming[/h2]

• Moved map scripts to their own folder
  
• Network code cleanup
  
• Adjusted character portrait selection to be more likely to choose same portraits if characters' age difference is large, all else being equal
  
• Fallback for DLL mods that fail to load. A message will be shown and mods disabled.
  
• AI now purposely builds ships in specific water areas, like humans can
  
• Map files now support DynastySites in the tile data. Mods can append nation start tiles to premade maps
  
• Hotseat with one human player now behaves like single player for achievements, save files, discord, death with no heir, tutorial, hall of fame, etc
  

[h2]UI[/h2]

• Clicking a link within a mission button will activate the mission rather than opening the link
  
• Popups and tooltips now have scrollbars when needed, will no longer make text smaller to fit
  
• Adjusted floating text to better accommodate some bonuses
  
• HUD changes to prevent overlap. Research is now centered according to the other HUD elements rather than the center of the screen
  
• Added founded turn to city sort. This was always the default sort and can now be selected again after changing the sort order
  
• City screen (F7) now applies default founding turn sort when clicking the city name column
  
• Added connected icon to cities tab
  
• Moved family/religion actions to bottom of selection panel
  
• Added per-culture level limits to improvement Encyclopedia entries
  
• Ships show a text status while anchoring
  
• Raider unit tooltips now show original tribe
  
• Unit tooltips now show original unit owner
  
• Improvements to unit range tooltips. Fixed range now indicated in the unit's tooltip
  
• Improvement yield modifiers are shown even if they sum to zero
  
• Trait gain / loss bonus helptext now shows yield change for traits with leader effects
  
• Added popup for when connection is restored in network multiplayer
  
• Changed Mod Browser resources link to Modding Guide page
  
• Added button with link to documentation to Portrait Editor
  
• Added Turns to Hall of Fame and allowed sorting by Legitimacy, VPs, Turns and Ambitions
  
• Show character subject requirements in red when no valid characters found for a mission
  
• Allow deselection on inheritance screen by clicking background
  
• Aligned ping popup dropdown/input field
  
• Added a hint about customizing opponent player parameters in a single player game
  
• Former regents now included in turn summary
  
• Improvement helptext displays when max improvement count is 1 for a city
  
• Updated National Alliance helptext to include that players can move and attack with allied units
  
• Added descriptions to Make Clergy and Pagan Sacrifice missions
  
• Add Road button now shown on invalid terrain
  
• Wonders now shown on city Improvements tooltip
  
• Negative penalty for missing family luxuries shown on send luxury to family button
  
• Added email reminder to non-strict turnstyle team server and cloud games for the last player to take their turn
  
• Added unsubscribe instructions to multiplayer turn emails
  
• Mod browser speed improvements
  
• Display the build's date in unambiguous international format instead of American
  

[h2]Bugs Fixed[/h2]

• Fixed units incorrectly advancing when rout not possible
  
• Fixed event level not being visible in scenario MP screen
  
• Fixed missing Resource density, city site density, and city site number options on some map scripts
  
• Fixed some mod load/unload issues
  
• Fixed DLL mods not shutting down when loading a save in-game
  
• Mod assemblies are now reference counted to fix DLL load/unload issues
  
• Fixed inconsistent header sizing on tab panel
  
• Fixed unit action buttons not appearing for units of allied nations
  
• Fix tile yield calculation with maiYieldRateSpecialistUrban only getting counted once per EffectCity
  
• Fixed assert error in Heroes of the Aegean scenario 5
  
• Fixed double mission display in Hero tooltip with Shammuramat selected (Wonders and Dynasties)
  
• Fixed unit harvest tooltip to display yields gained for allied units
  
• Fixed initialization of mod browser scrollbar on manage mod list.
  
• Fixed clicking some input fields (text ping, bug report screen) selecting all text
  
• Fixed settlement religion icon update on undo
  
• Fixed bug where raiders could raid the wrong player
  
• Fixed fortification bar for AI units showing even when they are moving
  
• Fixed leader background not being updated when switching due to premade map
  
• Fixed heir naming popup title
  
• Fixed overlap on dynasty portraits in SP setup
  
• Fixed free ships spawning on smaller bodies of water when a larger one is available
  
• Fixed missing options menu tooltips
  
• Fixed city luxury list tooltip not appearing
  
• Fixed an AI-related UI assert
  
• Fixed an assert for automated human units
  
• Fixed leader tooltip overlap with actions menu
  
• Fixed dynasty dropdowns not populating correctly on scenario setup screen
  
• Fixed decision update bug for MP games
  
• Fixed assign general audio level
  
• Text and event fixes
  

Small hotfix update to the main branch which is now 1.0.71427 Release 03/12/2024

[h2]Bugs Fixed[/h2]

• Fixed crash to desktop from new game screen with random nation selected
  
• Fixed scenario loading in MP
  
• Fixed worker value AI bug
  
• Possible fix for joining network games with mods
  
• Fixed Heroes of the Aegean scenario 3 Thessaly goal
  
• Added Safe Mode launch option for Steam